Open Collaboration for Innovation: Principles and Performance

The authors are thankful to Carliss Baldwin, Gregory Berns, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Eric von Hippel, Lars Bo Jeppesen, Chengwei Liu, and Sarah M. G. Otner for their comments. The authors also thank Ian Lim for his research support. The authors acknowledge the comments received at the following conferences: American Sociological Association 2006 in Montréal; Academy of Management 2008 in Anaheim, California; User and Open Innovation workshop 2009 in Hamburg; Mid-Atlantic Strategy Colloquium 2010 at the University of Maryland; Open Source Software 2010 in Notre Dame, Indiana; Israel Strategy Conference 2010 at the Technion; Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics 2012 in Cambridge; and Academy of Management 2012 in Boston. The first author thanks the Sloan School of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where the manuscript was written. The second author acknowledges a Summer Research grant from the Goizueta Business School, Emory University; discussions at the Human Social, Culture and Behavior Modeling Program meetings of the Office of Naval Research; and a grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research through the Office of Naval Research [Grant N000140910912].